xvi, 569 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 21 cm

Natalie Wood has been hailed alongside Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor as one of the top three female movie stars in film history. We watched her mature on the movie screen before our eyes in classics such as Miracle on 34th Street, Rebel Without a Cause, Splendor in the Grass, and West Side Story. But the story of what she endured, of what her life was like when the doors of the soundstages closed, had long been obscured. Suzanne Finstad conducted nearly four hundred interviews with Natalie Wood's family, close friends, legendary costars, lovers, film crews, and virtually everyone connected to her death. She reveals painful truths in Wood's complex relationships with James Dean, Frank Sinatra, Warren Beatty, and, of course, Robert Wagner. In this updated edition, Finstad will share her explosive findings from the last two decades. With her unprecedented access to the LAPD's "Murder Book," ignored by the original investigators, and new witnesses who have never spoken publicly, Finstad uncovers what really happened to Natalie Wood on that fateful boating trip in 1981 with Wagner and Christopher Walken

Updated edition with new chapters

"With explosive new chapters and insider details of her tragic death, the cover-ups, and the reopened investigation" -- cover

Includes filmography, bibliographical references (pages 491-555), and index

New York : Harmony Books, 2001

Starchild (1908-1951) -- Rebel (1951-1957) -- Movie star (1957-1966) -- Motherhood (1966-1979) -- Dark water (1980-1981) -- Revelation (1981-2020)

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